The gold-dust day gecko has always been treasured in my gecko collection. This is not only because of dazzling gold speckles along its neck, red back markings and blue streaks above its eyes, but also its curious personality, which makes these lizards very visible terrarium geckos.
The name “gold-dust day gecko” is often applied to both Phelsuma laticauda laticauda, the nominate subspecies, and Phelsuma laticauda angularis, the subspecies correctly called the angulated gold-dust day gecko. Both subspecies have a green body, a whitish belly and upper eyelids lined in blue. True to their common name, their shoulders also have gold-colored speckles.
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